Quotes

• A key factor in explaining the sad state of American education can be found in overbureaucratization, which is seen in the compulsion to consolidate our public schools into massive factories and to increase to mammoth size our universities even in underpopulated states. The problem with bureaucracies is that they have to work hard and long to keep from substituting self-serving survival and growth for their original primary objective. Few succeed. Bureaucracies have no soul, no memory, and no conscience
  Conscience
  Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong. Moral judgement may derive from values or norms...
  
  . If there is a single stumbling block on the road to the future, it is the bureaucracy as we know it. (p. 219)

See also

• Gaston Bachelard
  Gaston Bachelard
  Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break...
  
   (1934, 1938)
• Gregory Bateson
  Gregory Bateson
  Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe...
  
   (1979) Mind and Nature
• Carl Jung
  Carl Jung
  Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and...
  
  
• Alfred Korzybski
  Alfred Korzybski
  Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is remembered for developing the theory of general semantics...
  
   (1933) - General semantics
  General Semantics
  General semantics is a program begun in the 1920's that seeks to regulate the evaluative operations performed in the human brain. After partial program launches under the trial names "human engineering" and "humanology," Polish-American originator Alfred Korzybski fully launched the program as...
  
  

• A Guide for the Perplexed
  A Guide for the Perplexed
  A Guide for the Perplexed is a short book by E. F. Schumacher, published in 1977. The title is a reference to Maimonides's The Guide for the Perplexed...
  
  (1977)
• Against Method
  Against Method
  Against Method is a book by Paul Feyerabend. In this work, Feyerabend argues that science is an anarchic enterprise. In the context of this work, the term anarchy refers to epistemological anarchy...
  
  (1975)
• Janus: A Summing Up
  Janus: A Summing Up
  Janus: A Summing Up is a book by Arthur Koestler, in which he develops his philosophical idea of the holarchy introduced in his 1967 book, The Ghost in the Machine. The holarchy provides a coherent way of organizing knowledge and nature all together...
  
  (1978)
• Rhizome
  Rhizome (philosophy)
  Rhizome is a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia project...
  
  (1976)
• Sociobiology
  Sociobiology
  Sociobiology is a field of scientific study which is based on the assumption that social behavior has resulted from evolution and attempts to explain and examine social behavior within that context. Often considered a branch of biology and sociology, it also draws from ethology, anthropology,...
  
  (1975)
• The Message in the Bottle
  The Message in the Bottle
  The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer Language is, and What One Has to Do with the Other is a collection of essays on semiotics written by Walker Percy and first published in 1975...
  
  (1975)
• The Selfish Gene
  The Selfish Gene
  The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976. It builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection. Dawkins coined the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution as opposed to the...
  
  (1976)
• The Tao of Physics
  The Tao of Physics
  The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism is a book by physicist Fritjof Capra, published in 1975 by Shambhala Publications of Berkeley, California. It was a bestseller in the United States, and has been published in 43 editions in 23 languages...
  
  (1975)
• Wholeness and the Implicate Order
  Wholeness and the Implicate Order
  Wholeness and the Implicate Order is a book by theoretical physicist David Bohm. It was originally published 1980 by Routledge, Great Britain.The book gives a detailed description of the implicate and explicate order according to David Bohm.- Chapters :...
  
  (1980)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is a 1974 philosophical novel, the first of Robert M. Pirsig's texts in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality.The book sold 5 million copies worldwide...
  
  (1974)

External links

• The Grip of Culture: Edward T. Hall (pdf) -- a faithful synopsis by Sergio Missana covering:
  • The Silent Language (1959)
  • The Hidden Dimension (1966)
  • Beyond Culture (1976)
• Edward T. Hall and The History of Intercultural Communication: The United States and Japan (pdf) by Everett M. Rogers, William B. Hart, and Yoshitaka Miike (2002)
• Beyond Culture: Communicating with Asian American Children and Families (html) by Gary Huang (1997) at Teachers College, Columbia University